Recently, one of the SQL Server Instance suddenly stopped working and shutdown automatically. We failed to bring its services online. Even we were not able to launch SQL Server Management studio. When we checked windows event viewer, we had seen multiple event ids for SQL Server like Event ID 7024, Event ID 17051 etc. We got this error because SQL Server evaluation period has expired for this instance.

As I said, SQL Server was down and I tried starting it from SQL Server Configuration Manager. It never come online so I decided to check Windows event viewer. I saw event id 7024 that says something wrong with application SQL Server. You can see the screenshot of event id 7024.

We can see error 17051 is captured for SQL Server in above screenshot. When I scrolled next error details I saw below details with event id 17051 that says “SQL Server evaluation period has expired”. When you look into SQL Server error log, you will get below details.

Error: 17051, Severity: 16, State: 1.
SQL Server evaluation period has expired.

Then I decided to check the installed version of SQL Server that clearly says that we had installed SQL Server Evaluation version on this database server. You can get it by launching property window of SQL Server service in SQL Server Configuration Manager. You can see this in below screenshot.

Now we had to upgrade SQL Server evaluation edition to bring it online and make it work as it was working before. To start this, we need SQL Server setup files to perform this upgrade. Follow below steps to activate your expired SQL Server evaluation version to either standard, enterprise or developer edition.

Upgrade SQL Server Evaluation Edition to Enterprise Edition

First decide on which edition you want to upgrade your expired SQL Server evaluation edition instance. Copy identified edition of SQL Server setup files to the target or impacted SQL Server machine. Now we will launch SQL Server Installation Center to run this upgrade. Make sure to run this whole process using sysadmin account.

Double click on Setup.exe file to start the upgrade. You will get SQL Server Installation Center once you run setup.exe file of SQL Server setup. Click at “Maintenance” tab from left side pane as shown in below image and then click on “Edition Upgrade” option from right side pane.

Once you click at Edition upgrade, below image will come to proceed. This screen will come to enter the product key of SQL Server. Verify the correct product key and click on next button to proceed.

Once you click at next button you will get below pop up “Evaluation period has expired”. Click on Ok button to proceed.

Next screen will come to accept the License Terms. Click at Next button after selecting “I accept license terms” checkbox option.

Here, you will get installed components of SQL Server. Verify the SQL Server instance and click on next button to proceed. You can see edition is showing as Evaluation in below screenshot.

Once you will click at Next button, rules will be checked by the setup and you can see the progress bar in below image.

Now it’s time for final window of this upgrade process where you need to recheck and verify the details and if everything looks good then click at “Upgrade” button to start the upgrade process.

Setup will process and end up with new upgraded edition. You have been activated SQL Server to run it on your server and it has been upgraded to your identified edition of SQL Server i.e Enterprise edition.

You can check the upgraded edition by launching property window of SQL Server service in SQL Server Configuration window. We can see now edition is showing as Enterprise Edition. Here, we have upgraded SQL Server evaluation version to Enterprise edition of SQL Server 2014.

Now you can go ahead and launch SQL Server Management Studio and establish database connection to check and verify all details to make sure everything is ok on your database server.
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Uninstall SQL Tools on RHEL

As we know sqlcmd and bcp utilities are part of SQL tools so if you want to uninstall these utilities from red hat linux machine you need to uninstall SQL tools package mssql-tools. Follow below steps to uninstall sqlcmd utility from your redhat linux machine.

1- Connect to your RHEL server where SQL tools has been installed and running. Check whether SQL tools are installed on this machine or not by checking sqlcmd or bcp utilities. You can see RedHat Linux is recognizing sqlcmd utility that means SQL tools have been installed on this machine that needs to be uninstalled.

2- We can see sqlcmd utility in above screenshot. Now, we will uninstall SQL tools by running below command.

#Uninstall SQL tools from RHEL
sudo yum remove mssql-tools

You can see the details of SQL tools package that is going to be removed from this machine. We can see mssql-tools package is going to be removed here. Above command will ask us to type y to proceed with the uninstallation of this package mssql-tools and type N to quit this removal.

I entered y to uninstall SQL tools from this machine. This will uninstall both utilities sqlcmd and bcp. You can see SQL tools package mssql-tools has been removed from this machine post entering y in above screenshot.

3- Now, we can check sqlcmd or bcp utility again to validate this uninstallation. I typed sqlcmd as i did in first screenshot and pressed enter. Now we can see red hat linux is not recognizing sqlcmd utility, that means SQL tools have been removed from this machine.

#check sqlcmd utility post SQL tools uninstallation
sqlcmd

Here i have shown step by step process to uninstall SQL Tools sqlcmd and bcp from linux machine.

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Uninstall SQL Server 2017 on RHEL

Uninstalling SQL Server 2017 that is running on Linux server is totally different process as compared to its windows based SQL Server. Follow below step by step process to uninstall SQL Server 2017 from your RHEL Linux server.

1- Connect to your RHEL server where SQL Server 2017 is running and that needs to be uninstalled from the server. Check whether SQL Server is installed on this machine or not by checking SQL Server service. You can see SQL Server is running on this server.

#Run below command to check SQL Server Service.
systemctl status mssql-server

2- Check SQL Server files along with the database files before removing SQL Server. We will validate SQL Server removal by checking these files post uninstallation.

#Check SQL Server binaries & database files
sudo ls -lrt /var/opt/mssql
sudo ls -lrt /var/opt/mssql/data

Note: Make sure to run full backup of all your databases and keep them in a safer place for future needs.

3- Now, we will uninstall SQL Server by running below command.

#Remove SQL Server from your Linux machine
sudo yum remove mssql-server

You can see details of SQL Server packages that are going to be removed from this machine. These packages are SQL Server and SQL Server Agent that are going to be removed here. Above command will ask us to type y to proceed with the uninstallation and type N to quit this uninstallation. Type y to proceed with the SQL Server removal.

You can see SQL Server and SQL Server Agent both packages have been removed from this machine.

4- Now, remove all SQL Server binaries and database files from its installed location that we checked in second screenshot by running below command.

#Remove database files and SQL binaries.
sudo rm -rf /var/opt/mssql

Here, your SQL Server has been removed from this linux machine. You can check SQL Server binaries and database files by running below commands. We can see no files in these locations because they have been removed now.

#Check database files.
sudo ls -lrt /var/opt/mssql/data

#Check SQL Server files & folders.
sudo ls -lrt /var/opt/mssql

5- Now you can check SQL Server service again by executing below command.

#Check SQL Server Service post SQL Server Removal.
systemctl status mssql-server 

We can see SQL Server is not loaded this time but service is showing as active.

When you will try to restart this service, it will throw you an error that unit not found as shown in below image.

6- Now we need to reboot the server to update SQL Server service status on RHEL. I restarted this linux machine and again checked the SQL Server service. You can see this time it says service could not found.

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